I think Bartra should play more this season so he can gain experience to be a regular next season rather than Masch. If we do get Marquinhos he can be loaned back out to Roma or slowly integrated for the next few years before he becomes a starter alongside Pique. Bartra can play regularly but...
Iniesta has definitely proved to be much better than CR this season. Every match is literally a magic show from El Ilusionista AND he's leading europe in assists on that left wing. IMO he's better than Laudrup or Zidane but not many would agree with me on that.
Iniesta doesn't track back a lot either. I can understand why Iniesta is higher in the pecking order (obviously) but I don't get why Villa is getting such little playing time.
Pepe and Ramos have conceded more because they play more. Albiol is a poor defender and Varane is good but he can't do everything by himself. Plus Adan is a dumbass. Messi isn't likely to get injured *crosses fingers* and i'm not saying it's necessary to play him the whole game. Just enough for...
There is no point in trying to label the positions of most of our players. They all wander and move around so much that you can't recognize exactly where they are playing.
He's slow but when he plays on the wing he doesn't wander much. Plus his main role when he is there is to link up and provide a killer pass to either Iniesta, Pedro, Messi, or an overlapping Alves.
Despite the fact that he works hard and performs well throughout a match, he still is a huge liability. All it takes is one of his massive errors for the opposing team to capitalize and score a goal. And these errors are so huge that conceding is pretty much guaranteed. His positioning is off...